Yorokobinoma
Tue, 31/08/10 – 5:19 | No Comment

It is sad to admit that Japanese food is the most desired but the most difficult place for vegetarians to dine out. The chefs sometimes to give up their katsuo dashi (bonito stock), which is …

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Cove stays quiet
Wednesday, 30 Sep, 2009 – 3:22 | No Comment
Cove stays quiet

From Ecorazzi:
When the documentary The Cove was released in late summer to a limited amount of theaters in the US, expectations of how the film might impact the start of the Japanese dolphin hunt were …

The Sexy Vegan
Wednesday, 30 Sep, 2009 – 0:21 | No Comment
The Sexy Vegan

Hilarious and useful recipe videos.

Wolfgang Puck doesn’t like veal, except in recipes
Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 – 3:53 | One Comment
Wolfgang Puck doesn’t like veal, except in recipes

In an interview with The Gothamist, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck spoke out against veal:
… in most places when you look at the way they treat the animals, you’re going to become a vegetarian anyway. If …

Tokyo Veggie Food Festa
Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 – 1:10 | No Comment
Tokyo Veggie Food Festa

Last year it was called the Tokyo Vegetarian Festival, this year it’s the Tokyo Veggie Food Festa. Unless you go by their website URL, in which case it’s the Tokyo Vegefest. Hell, if Coca-Cola can …

Is Red Bull vegetarian?
Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 – 0:34 | 4 Comments
Is Red Bull vegetarian?

Red Bull contains taurine, so named because it was first found in bulls’ bile. And it’s that name, and original source, that leads people to claim that Red Bull isn’t suitable for veggies. The company’s …

Sense, Mandarin Oriental Tokyo
Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 – 0:11 | No Comment
Sense, Mandarin Oriental Tokyo

Sense, the Cantonese restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, specialises in Peking duck and shark’s fin. The chef will carve the crispy duck at your table, and I’m told it’s superlative. I understand he also …

The Indy on London’s Vanilla Black
Monday, 28 Sep, 2009 – 23:15 | No Comment
The Indy on London’s Vanilla Black

There’s a trend recently in the British press to send carnivores to review vegetarian restaurants or turn veggie for a week, and most of the pieces are fairly cookie-cutter stuff about missing meat. Here’s one …

Japanese table etiquette
Monday, 28 Sep, 2009 – 15:18 | No Comment

Via The Japan Times, a lesson in table manners:

Broccoli seeds
Saturday, 26 Sep, 2009 – 6:48 | 3 Comments
Broccoli seeds

I’m always looking for easy ways to eat more healthily without having to adjust my dietary habits in any way. Thanks to Alishan I’ve found a new one. Fry any old thing you like, or …

Getting enough iron?
Tuesday, 1 Sep, 2009 – 0:58 | No Comment
Getting enough iron?

Advice on iron in a vegan diet from Examiner.com. It doesn’t read like a particularly neutral point of view, but it has some decent advice and an iron-content chart:

The type of iron in plant foods …